7 May 2026 cohort
136 councils polled
2,943 ward races
5,031 seats elected
31.7% elected below the proportional quota
Map
Every UK council as a single hexagon, geographically arranged. Councils that polled in 7 May 2026 are shaded by the share of their seats elected below the proportional quota — darker is worse. Councils not in this cohort are shown grey. Click a hex to drill in.
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One hex = one council. Geographic position is approximate (cartogram, not a literal map).
Ten seats furthest below the proportional quota in this cycle
| Ward / Council | Seat-holder (party, per public record) | Seats | Won at | Quota | Below quota Marginal winner's share minus the proportional quota for this race. Negative = below; positive = above. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyseley and Hay Mills Birmingham | Atikur Rahman Green Party | 1 | 20.5% | 50.0% | −29.5 pts |
| Hatfield East Welwyn Hatfield | Vaishali Shah Labour Party | 1 | 24.8% | 50.0% | −25.2 pts |
| Bordesley and Highgate Birmingham | Ali Akbar Shujja Kazi Green Party | 1 | 25.0% | 50.0% | −25.0 pts |
| Tarring West Sussex | Henna Chowdhury Labour Party | 1 | 25.1% | 50.0% | −24.9 pts |
| Fair Oak and Horton Heath Eastleigh | Nick Couldrey Liberal Democrats | 1 | 25.2% | 50.0% | −24.8 pts |
| Darnall Sheffield | Zahira Naz Labour Party | 1 | 25.3% | 50.0% | −24.7 pts |
| St Loyes Exeter | Paul Stephen Richards Liberal Democrats | 1 | 25.6% | 50.0% | −24.4 pts |
| Hethersett Norfolk | Ben Weston Labour Party | 1 | 26.3% | 50.0% | −23.7 pts |
| Banbury Cross and Neithrop Cherwell | Yvonne Greene Reform UK | 1 | 26.6% | 50.0% | −23.4 pts |
| Blyth Estuary Suffolk | John Matthews Reform UK | 1 | 26.9% | 50.0% | −23.1 pts |
All councils that polled in 7 May 2026
136 councils.
- Adur · 14 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Barking and Dagenham · 19 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Barnet · 24 races · 7.9% of seats below quota
- Barnsley · 21 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Basildon · 14 races · 85.7% of seats below quota
- Basingstoke and Deane · 18 races · 89.5% of seats below quota
- Bexley · 17 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Birmingham · 69 races · 49.5% of seats below quota
- Blackburn with Darwen · 17 races · 76.5% of seats below quota
- Bolton · 20 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Bradford · 29 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Brent · 22 races · 8.8% of seats below quota
- Brentwood · 13 races · 71.4% of seats below quota
- Bromley · 22 races · 8.6% of seats below quota
- Broxbourne · 10 races · 90.0% of seats below quota
- Burnley · 15 races · 33.3% of seats below quota
- Bury · 16 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Calderdale · 18 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Cambridge · 14 races · 73.3% of seats below quota
- Camden · 20 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Cannock Chase · 12 races · 23.1% of seats below quota
- Cheltenham · 20 races · 75.0% of seats below quota
- Cherwell · 16 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Chorley · 14 races · 92.9% of seats below quota
- Colchester · 17 races · 94.1% of seats below quota
- Coventry · 18 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Crawley · 12 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Croydon · 28 races · 8.6% of seats below quota
- Dudley · 24 races · 80.0% of seats below quota
- Ealing · 24 races · 1.4% of seats below quota
- East Surrey · 36 races · 16.7% of seats below quota
- East Sussex · 50 races · 88.0% of seats below quota
- Eastleigh · 14 races · 86.7% of seats below quota
- Enfield · 25 races · 7.9% of seats below quota
- Epping Forest · 18 races · 72.2% of seats below quota
- Essex · 77 races · 88.3% of seats below quota
- Exeter · 13 races · 78.6% of seats below quota
- Fareham · 16 races · 87.5% of seats below quota
- Gateshead · 22 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Gosport · 14 races · 78.6% of seats below quota
- Greenwich · 23 races · 7.3% of seats below quota
- Hackney · 21 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Halton · 18 races · 78.9% of seats below quota
- Hammersmith and Fulham · 21 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Hampshire · 76 races · 91.0% of seats below quota
- Haringey · 21 races · 5.3% of seats below quota
- Harlow · 11 races · 27.3% of seats below quota
- Harrow · 21 races · 5.7% of seats below quota
- Hart · 11 races · 81.8% of seats below quota
- Hartlepool · 12 races · 58.3% of seats below quota
- Hastings · 16 races · 64.7% of seats below quota
- Havant · 12 races · 75.0% of seats below quota
- Havering · 20 races · 7.3% of seats below quota
- Hillingdon · 20 races · 13.7% of seats below quota
- Hounslow · 22 races · 4.8% of seats below quota
- Huntingdonshire · 26 races · 19.2% of seats below quota
- Hyndburn · 11 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Ipswich · 16 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Isle of Wight · 39 races · 74.4% of seats below quota
- Islington · 17 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Kensington and Chelsea · 18 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Kingston upon Hull · 19 races · 84.2% of seats below quota
- Kingston upon Thames · 19 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Kirklees · 23 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Knowsley · 15 races · 75.0% of seats below quota
- Lambeth · 25 races · 4.8% of seats below quota
- Leeds · 33 races · 69.4% of seats below quota
- Lewisham · 19 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Lincoln · 11 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Manchester · 32 races · 81.3% of seats below quota
- Merton · 20 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Milton Keynes · 21 races · 3.3% of seats below quota
- Newcastle upon Tyne · 26 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Newcastle-under-Lyme · 21 races · 9.1% of seats below quota
- Newham · 24 races · 4.5% of seats below quota
- Norfolk · 84 races · 92.9% of seats below quota
- North East Lincolnshire · 15 races · 73.3% of seats below quota
- North Tyneside · 20 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Norwich · 13 races · 57.1% of seats below quota
- Nuneaton and Bedworth · 19 races · 78.9% of seats below quota
- Oldham · 20 races · 65.0% of seats below quota
- Oxford · 24 races · 75.0% of seats below quota
- Pendle · 10 races · 80.0% of seats below quota
- Peterborough · 18 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Plymouth · 19 races · 89.5% of seats below quota
- Portsmouth · 14 races · 92.9% of seats below quota
- Preston · 16 races · 93.8% of seats below quota
- Reading · 16 races · 76.5% of seats below quota
- Redbridge · 22 races · 1.6% of seats below quota
- Redditch · 9 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Richmond upon Thames · 17 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Rochdale · 20 races · 95.0% of seats below quota
- Rochford · 13 races · 73.3% of seats below quota
- Rugby · 14 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Rushmoor · 13 races · 85.7% of seats below quota
- Salford · 20 races · 85.7% of seats below quota
- Sandwell · 24 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Sefton · 22 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Sheffield · 28 races · 66.7% of seats below quota
- Solihull · 17 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- South Cambridgeshire · 26 races · 20.0% of seats below quota
- South Tyneside · 18 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Southampton · 17 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Southend-on-Sea · 17 races · 100.0% of seats below quota
- Southwark · 23 races · 1.6% of seats below quota
- St Albans · 20 races · 54.5% of seats below quota
- St Helens · 17 races · 4.3% of seats below quota
- Stevenage · 13 races · 85.7% of seats below quota
- Stockport · 21 races · 85.7% of seats below quota
- Suffolk · 69 races · 94.3% of seats below quota
- Sunderland · 25 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Sutton · 20 races · 1.8% of seats below quota
- Swindon · 25 races · 3.5% of seats below quota
- Tameside · 19 races · 94.7% of seats below quota
- Tamworth · 9 races · 33.3% of seats below quota
- Three Rivers · 13 races · 76.9% of seats below quota
- Thurrock · 20 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Tower Hamlets · 20 races · 24.4% of seats below quota
- Trafford · 21 races · 85.7% of seats below quota
- Tunbridge Wells · 13 races · 60.0% of seats below quota
- Wakefield · 21 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Walsall · 20 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Waltham Forest · 22 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Wandsworth · 22 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Watford · 12 races · 75.0% of seats below quota
- Welwyn Hatfield · 16 races · 82.4% of seats below quota
- West Lancashire · 15 races · 93.3% of seats below quota
- West Oxfordshire · 16 races · 93.8% of seats below quota
- West Surrey · 45 races · 17.8% of seats below quota
- West Sussex · 70 races · 95.7% of seats below quota
- Westminster · 18 races · 0.0% of seats below quota
- Wigan · 25 races · 64.0% of seats below quota
- Winchester · 15 races · 80.0% of seats below quota
- Wokingham · 18 races · 84.2% of seats below quota
- Wolverhampton · 20 races · 85.7% of seats below quota
- Worthing · 13 races · 100.0% of seats below quota